Trade with Asia 1500-1800: Reading List

Primary sources

Bernier, François, Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656-1668, revised and improved by Archibald Constable (London, 1891)

Bowrey, Thomas, Geographical Account of Countries around the Bay of Bengal, (ed.), R.C. Temple (Cambridge,1905)

Campbell, Colin, A Passage to China: Colin Campbell's Diary of the First Swedish East India Company's Expedition to Canton, 1732-33, edited by Paul Hallberg and Christian Koninckx, (Göteberg, 1994)

Castro, de. Xavier, Voyage de Pyrard de Laval aux Indes orientales (1601-1611), 2 vols. (Paris, 1998)

Chaumont, Chevalier de and the Abbé de Choisy,Aspects of the Embassy to Siam 1685..., edited and in part translated by Michael Smithies (Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1997)

Constable, Archibald, (translated and edited),Travels in the Mogul Empire AD 1656-1668 (London, 1891)

Cooper, Michael, (ed.), João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan, (London, 2001)

Cooper, Michael, They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640, (Berkeley and Los Angeles,1965)

Della Valle, Pietro, The travels of Pietro della Valle in India, 2 vols. (London, 1892)

Du Halde, J.B., A Description of the Empire of China, II vols. (London, 1738)

Foster, William, The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe, (London, 1926; reprinted 1990).

Hamilton, A., A New Account of the East Indies(Edinburgh, 1727)

Hickey, William, The Memoirs of William Hickey, (ed.) Spencer, Alfred, 4 vols. (London, 1925)

Hodges, William, Travels in India during the years 1780-83 (London, 1793)

Kaempfer, Englebert, Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed, edited, translated and annotated by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey (Honolulu, 1999)

Kindersley, Jemima, Mrs., Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East-Indies (London, 1777)

Linschoten, J.H. van, The voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies, trans. by A.C. Burnell, 2 vols., London, 1885 (reprinted Delhi 1988)

Mundy, Peter, The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667, edited by Sir R.C. Temple (Cambridge, 1907-36)

Nieuhof, Johan, Voyages & Travels to the East Indies 1653-1670, with an introduction by Anthony Reid (Singapore, 1988)

Ovington, J.A., Voyage to Surat in the year 1689, edited by H.G. Rawlinson (London, 1929)

Pelsaert, Francisco, Jahangir's India: The Remonstratie of Francisco Pelsaert edited by W. H. Moreland and P. Geyl (Cambridge, 1925)

Ravenstein, E.G., trans. & (ed.), A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499, (London, 1898)

Satow, E.M., (ed.), The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613. Hakluyt Society, Series III, Volume 7(London, 1900)

Staunton, George, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the king of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 3 vols. (London, 1797)

Valentyn, François, Description of Ceylon, translated and edited by Arasaratnam, Sinnappah (London, 1978)

Secondary sources

Adshead, S.A.M., China in World History (London, 1994

Adshead, S.A.M., Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800 (Basingstoke, 1997)

Akveld, Leo and Jacobs, Els M. (eds.), The Colourful World of the VOC exhibition catalogue (Amsterdam, 2002)

Alden, Dauril, The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire and Beyond(Stanford, 1996)

Archer, Mildred, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825 (London, 1979)

Archer, Mildred, Early Views of India: the Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William Daniell (London, 1980)

Archer, et al., Treasures from India, The Clive Collection at Powis Castle, exhibition catalogue (London 1987)

Archer, Mildred, Company paintings: Indian paintings of the British period (London 1992)

Ayers, John et al., Porcelain for Palaces, exhibition catalogue (London, 1990)

Bailey, Gauvin, A., Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 (Toronto and Buffalo, 1999)

Barnes, Ruth, Cohen, Steven and Crill, Rosemary,Trade, Temple & Court. Indian Textiles from the Tapi Collection (Mumbai, 2002)

Bayley, C.A., Imperial Meridian: the British Empire and the World 1780-1830 (London 1989)

Bayley, C.A., (ed.), The Raj. India and the British 1600-1947, exhibition catalogue, (London, 1990) B

Beekman, E.M., Troubled Pleasures, Dutch Colonial Literature from the East Indies, 1600-1950, (Oxford, 1996)

Berliner, Festspiele, Europa und die Kasier von China, exhibition catalogue, (Berlin, 1985)

Berliner, Festspiele, Japan und Europa 1543-1929, exhibition catalogue, (Berlin, 1993)

Beurdeley, Cécile and Michel, Giuseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors(London, 1972)

Blussé, L., Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century, (Princeton, 2002)

Blussé, L., Remmelink, W., I. Smits, I., eds.,Bridging the Divide, 400 Years The Netherlands-Japan(Leiden, 2000)

Blussé, L., Strange Company: Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women and the Dutch in VOC Batavia(Dordrecht, 1986)

Bordeaux, Musee des Arts Décoratifs, La Route des Indes. Les Indes et l'Europe: echanges artistiques et heritage commun 1650-1850, exhibition catalogue (Bordeaux, 1998)

Bourne, Jonathan, et. al., Lacquer, and International History and Collector's Guide, (London, 1984)

Boxer, C.R., Jan Company in Japan 1600-1817 (Tokyo and London, 1968)

Boxer, C.R., From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750. Studies in Portuguese Maritime Enterprise (Aldershot, 1984)

Boxer, C.R., The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1951, rep Lisbon, 1991)

Carita, Helder, Palaces of Goa (Lisbon, 1995)

Clunas, Craig, Chinese Export Watercolours (London, 1984)

Clunas, Craig (ed.), Chinese Export Art and Design(London, 1987)

Conner, Patrick, The China Trade: 1600-1860, exhibition catalogue (Brighton, 1986)

Crossman, Carl, The Decorative Arts of the China trade (Woodbridge, 1991)

Daenhardt, Rainer, The Bewitched Gun, the introduction of the firearm in the Far East by the Portuguese (Lisbon, 1994)

Dalrymple, William, White Mughals (London 2002)

Disney, Anthony and Booth, Emily, (eds.), Vasco da Gama and the Linking of Europe and Asia (New York and New Delhi, 2000)

Farrington, Anthony, Trading Places: the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834, exhibition catalogue (London, 2002)

Furber, Holden, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient 1600-1800 (Minneapolis, 1976)

Goodman, Grant, K., Japan and the Dutch, 1600-1853, (London, Curzon Press, 2000) (previous editions published as Japan: The Dutch Experience (London, 1986) and The Dutch Impact on Japan, 1640-1853 (Leiden, 1967)

Guy, J., Woven Cargoes: Indian Textiles in the East, exhibition catalogue, (London, 1998)

Hall, Richard, Empires of the Monsoon. A history of the Indian ocean and its invaders (London, 1996).

Hardie, P. and Greenstead, M., Chinese Ceramics: The India Connection (Bristol 1982)

Hevia, James, L., Cherishing Men from Afar (Durham, N.C, and London 1995)

Irwin, John and Brett, Katherine, Origins of Chintz(London, 1970)

Iyer, Raghavan, (ed.), The Glass Curtain between Asia and Europe (London, 1965)

Jardine, Lisa and Brotton, Jerry, Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (London, 2000)

Jarry, Madeleine, Chinoiserie: Chinese Influences on European Decorative Arts 17th and 18th centuries (New York and London1981)

Jourdain, Margaret and Jenyns, Soame, R.,Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century (Feltham, Middlesex, 1967)

Kao, Mayching, 'European Influences in Chinese Art, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,' in Lee, Thomas, C.H., (ed.), China and Europe: Images and Influences in Sixteenth to eighteenth Centuries (Hong Kong, 1991), pp. 251-303

Keay, John, The Honourable Company: a History of the East India Company (London, 1991)

Keene, Donald, The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 (Stanford, 1969) (revised and expanded edition of The Japanese Discovery of Europe: Honda Toshiaki and Other Discoverers, 1720-1798 (London, 1952)

Khan, Gulfishan, Indian Muslim Perceptions of the West During the Eighteenth Century (Karachi, 1998)

Lach, Donald, Asia in the Making of Europe Vol 1: The Century of Discovery (Chicago and London, 1965)

Lach, Donald, Asia in the Making of Europe, Vol.2: A Century of Wonder (Chicago and London, 1970)

Lach, Donald F., and Kley, Edwin, J. van, Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 3: A Century of Advance(Chicago and London 1993)

Lee, Thomas, C.H., (ed.), China and Europe: Images and Influences in Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries(Hong Kong, 1991)

Llewellyn-Jones, R., A Fatal Friendship, the Nawabs, the British and the city of Lucknow (New Delhi, 1985)

Losty, J.P., Calcutta: City of Palaces (London, 1990)

Mendes Pinto, Maria Helena. Namban Lacquerware in Portugal: The Portuguese presence in Japan (1543-1639) (Lisbon, 1990)

Moran, J.F., The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan, (London and New York, 1993)

Musée du Louvre, "L'Etrange et Merveilleux en terres d'Islam" exhibition catalogue (Paris, 2001)

Museu de São Roque, Lisbon, A Herança de Rauluchantim, exhibition catalogue (Lisbon, 1996)

Nish, Ian and Kibata Yoichi (eds.) Anglo Japanese Relations, 1600-1858; The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, Volume 1: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930, (Basingstoke, 2002)

Pagani, Catherine, 'Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity': Clocks of Late Imperial China(Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2001)

Pearson, M.N., The Portuguese in India, The New Cambridge History of India 1.1, (Cambridge, 1987)

Pereira, Jose and Pratapaditya Pal, (eds.), India and Portugal: Cultural Interactions, (Mumbai 2001)

Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michèle, 'The Emperor Qianlong's European Palaces', Orientations, (November 1988), volume 19, no. 11, pp. 61-71

Proust, Jacques, Europe Through the Prism of Japan(Notre Dame, Indiana, 2002)

Qaisar, Ahsan Jan, The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture (A.D. 1498-1707) (Delhi, 1982)

Rubiés, Joan-Pau, Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance, South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625, (Cambridge, 2000)

Russell-Wood, A.J.R., A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia and America 1415-1808(New York, 1992)

Said, Edward, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London, 1978)

Sargent, William, Views of the Pearl River Delta: Macau, Canton and Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1997)

Screech, Timon, The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart (Cambridge, 1996)

Spear, Percival, The Nabobs (reprinted Calcutta, 1991)

Spence, Jonathan D., The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (New York, 1984)

Strachan, Michael, Sir Thomas Roe 1581-1644. A Life, (Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1989)

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, (Cambridge, 1997)

Subhramanyan, Sanjay, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700, A Political and Economic History, (London and New York, 1993)

Sullivan, Michael, The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day (London, 1997)

Teltscher, Kate, India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600-1800, (New Delhi, 1997)

van der Cruysse, D., Siam and the West, 1500-1700(Chiangmai, 2002)

van de Geijn-Verhoeven, Monique et al., Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia 1602-1795, exhibition catalogue (Gemeentemuseum, (Den Haag, 2002)

van Gulik, W.R., In the Wake of the Liefde: Cultural Relations between the Netherlands and Japan since 1600, (Amsterdam, 1986)

Yule, Henry and Burnell, A.C., Hobson-Jobson. A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases.., second edition (London, 1903)

Zanvliet, Kees, (ed.), The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600-1950, Rijksmuseum, exhibition catalogue (Amsterdam, 2002)

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This content was originally written in association with the exhibition 'Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800', on display at the V&A South Kensington from 23 September - 5 December 2004